To tell you the truth, I always wanted the rabbit to get that Trix cereal - those kids were flaming assholes.
What is Watterson's worst-ever "Calvin and Hobbes"?
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Considering the massive sled falls and crashes Watterson repeatedly inflicted upon his duo, I don't necessarily agree with your interpretation of the demise as horribly painful. I think an equally valid reading would suggest that, when Watterson stopped drawing the strips, the characters were inadvertently "unplugged", as it were, and simply ceased to function mid-ride. In any case, there's only so much one can fit into modern Sunday newspaper strips, so Lio's brief if somewhat gruesome joke doesn't disturb me, though I do find the non-time-limited Robot Chicken sequence, which is unambiguously vicious, to be both unclever and gross. And if I still haven't swayed your opinion on the matter, I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree.
Slightly closer to topic:
Now that I take another look at this, I think that it, too, gets Hobbes massively wrong. Why wouldn't Hobbes be eager to play with a daughter of Calvin's? A more appropriate picture would be of adult Calvin smiling as he watches the new duo running joyfully off on an adventure.
Of course he would, but he also looks fondly on his time with Calvin and will miss that.
BTW, I totally love the fact that Calvin's daughter is named "Bacon".
Of course he would, but he also looks fondly on his time with Calvin and will miss that.
BTW, I totally love the fact that Calvin's daughter is named "Bacon".
I don't get it. Is there a strip that explains the joke?
Of course he would, but he also looks fondly on his time with Calvin and will miss that.
BTW, I totally love the fact that Calvin's daughter is named "Bacon".
I don't get it. Is there a strip that explains the joke?
Calvin, Hobbes, and Bacon all refer to famous philosophers:
John Calvin
Thomas Hobbes
Francis Bacon
I see what you did there... whether you intended to or not.BTW, I totally love the fact that Calvin's daughter is named "Bacon".
I don't get it. Is there a strip that explains the joke?
BTW, I totally love the fact that Calvin's daughter is named "Bacon".
I don't get it. Is there a strip that explains the joke?
Calvin and Hobbes are named after two noted philosophers, John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. Francis Bacon was another philosopher from the same era.
But where is it stated that the daughter is named Bacon? There's nothing in the linked image to indicate that.
The links were posted earlier in the thread:
BTW, I totally love the fact that Calvin's daughter is named "Bacon".
I don't get it. Is there a strip that explains the joke?
Calvin and Hobbes are named after two noted philosophers, John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. Francis Bacon was another philosopher from the same era.
Ah, feeling mighty uncultured right now...
And I didn't even catch the Francis Bacon reference. I just thought Bacon was a really cool name for the girl.
My least favorite Calvin and Hobbes strip would probably be the Pair of Pathetic Paripatetics one. It just felt to me as though Watterson was low on ideas one day so he took a clever rhyme he had previously thought up and forced it into a strip. Of course, the fact that even my least favorite of his strips has a bit of cleverness in it goes to show how much I really, really admire Watterson's work.
Oh, and count me as one who thought Calvin and Hobbes' ending was perfectly appropriate.
And I always wanted the rabbit to get some Trix, too.
Oh, and count me as one who thought Calvin and Hobbes' ending was perfectly appropriate.
And I always wanted the rabbit to get some Trix, too.
Or, the kids give the rabbit the cereal and then the ASPCA accuses them of animal cruelty for trying to "poison" the white hare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plmFkZHjt6Y
The little girl in the Motivational poster image that you linked wouldn't be Bacon, since that image predates Hobbes & Bacon by several years. Though perhaps Dan and Tom Heyerman were inspired by that piece of fan art when they did the four Hobbes & Bacon strips for their webcomic, "Pants are Overrated," because the little girl does resemble Bacon.
Aw, I like that one! It's always fun to see Calvin displaying far more knowledge than any six-year-old has any right to do (i.e., knowing what "peripatetics" are. And the punchline, where he acknowledges his own ridiculous, but clings to it anyways - nope, sorry, there have just got to be worse ones than that.
Which is just Watterson following in the footsteps of Charles Schulz. The Peanuts kids could also be quite precocious, and it was in strips like those that Watterson's debt to Schulz as an inspiration was clearest.
Aw, I like that one! It's always fun to see Calvin displaying far more knowledge than any six-year-old has any right to do (i.e., knowing what "peripatetics" are. And the punchline, where he acknowledges his own ridiculous, but clings to it anyways - nope, sorry, there have just got to be worse ones than that.
You're not alone. When I was googling an image of that strip so I could link to it, I saw this blog explaining how clever that joke apparently is. To be fair, I don't dislike that strip. I just like the other C&H strips more.
I just want to add that Tyrannosaurs in 14s should be a slang for anything that is dumb but still really cool.
Me too.
I like the "pair o' pathetic peripatetics" strip. It's funny in its own right. But thinking of it in terms of the Peripatetic philosophical movement is interesting. Calvin and Hobbes essentially are Peripatetics -- they philosophize while wandering around (though as often while sledding as while walking).
One could argue, I suppose, that the first few strips that "introduce" Hobbes are in retrospect utterly unnecessary and therefore possibly the "worst", but I kind of like them, too. The handful of early Calvin-as-Boy-Scout strips, on the other hand, don't seem quite as memorable, though they are interesting as limited experiments in enlarging Calvin's life/surroundings.
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